CARVE CARVE CARNIVAL – 2026!
Dates:
Saturday, August 22 from 11am – 4pm
Location:
A/P Gallery and Studio
Cost:
$FREE!
Join us for a full day of spectacular printmaking funfair for ALL AGES!
STEP RIGHT UP and enjoy our special attractions:
- Make your own buttons!
- Take our button maker for a spin to make your own button designs.
- Silkscreen some swag!
- Choose from a variety of designs to screen print your own tea towels and bandanas.
- Stamp your own printed card!
- Our stamp collection has been growing and is waiting for you to stamp them on your own cards.
- Print your own bookmarks using LEGO and our Nolan Proof Press!
- What’s better than LEGO-building? LEGO PRINTING!
- Carve and print your own linocut patches! (Kid friendly materials too)!
- Using one of our many printing presses, carve and print your own custom fabric patches.
- Cyanotype sun-printing!
- Combine photographic negatives with materials to make your own print using an OG photo process with the sun.
- Create a unique print using textures!
- No drawing necessary – we’ll show you how you can use (and re-use) kneaded erasers to make prints.
- Step into a piece of carnival-inspired historical printmaking!
- Take a photo in our version of some famous poster reproductions – with a twist.
- WIN BIG at our neigbourhood PLINKO GAME!
- Everyone’s a winner with this one, so drop your token and take your chances to win a range of local goodies.
- Browse through our A/P member PRINT MARKET!
- We’re launching our next Print Market on the same day! Prepare to browse and call dibs on your faves.
All hands-on activities and midway treats are each priced from FREE to $18, with MOST BEING UNDER $7! There is something for everyone!
Market items are priced as marked. All proceeds from the day go toward fundraising for A/P community programming and support the market artists.
Weather permitting, festivities will be set up outside in the front parking lot, as well as throughout the A/P Gallery and Studio.

